Vocabulary
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Alphabetized Bibliography


General Surveys
  • 1.1 Books
  • 1.2 Collections of abstracts, bibliographies, articles on individuals
  • 1.3 Surveys of vocabulary learning, introductions to collections of articles
  • 1.4 Book reviews
  • 1.5 Articles not directly on vocabulary

What it Means to Know a Word
  • 2.1 Aspects of knowing a word
  • 2.2 Vocabulary difficulty, interference
  • 2.3 Models, working memory
  • 2.4 Active/passive
  • 2.5 Word form - spoken and written, spelling
  • 2.6 Grammar

Concepts
  • 3.1 L1 concept development
  • 3.2 Lexical storage and search
  • 3.3 Homonymy, polysemy, senses
  • 3.4 L2 concept learning and teaching, attrition

Associations
  • 4.1 Associations, metaphor

Collocations
  • 5.1 Analysis of collocation
  • 5.2 Teaching and learning collocations

Word Building, First Language Influence
  • 6.1 L1 acquisition of morphology
  • 6.2 Lists of word parts, sources of English vocabulary
  • 6.3 L2 acquisition of morphology
  • 6.4 Cognates and loan words, L1 borrowing and influence, etymology and learning
  • 6.5 Teaching word parts
  • 6.6 Lexical bar

Vocabulary Size
  • 7.1 Vocabulary size of very young L1 children
  • 7.2 Vocabulary size of L1 school children
  • 7.3 Vocabulary size of L1 adults
  • 7.4 Vocabulary size and growth of L2 learners
  • 7.5 Methodology of vocabulary size measurement

Word Lists and Frequency Counts
  • 8.1 Theory and critiques of word frequency lists, core vocabulary
  • 8.2 Word counts
  • 8.3 Grade school lists
  • 8.4 Corpus research

ESL Word Lists and Graded Readers Lists
  • 9.1 Discussion of ESL vocabulary counts and lists
  • 9.2 Simplification
  • 9.3 Studies of graded readers, reviews
  • 9.4 Learning from extensive reading
  • 9.5 Graded reader lists, EPER
  • 9.6 ESL lists
  • 9.7 Publishers’ catalogues of graded readers

Specialised Word Lists
  • 10.1 Learning and dealing with vocabulary in specialised texts
  • 10.2 Vocabulary in specialised texts
  • 10.3 Specialised vocabulary lists

Conditions for Learning
  • 11.1 Conditions
  • 11.2 Repetition and spacing
  • 11.3 Levels of processing
  • 11.4 Affective factors, gender, style

Vocabulary and Listening
  • 12.1 Learning through listening in L1
  • 12.2 Learning through listening in L2

Vocabulary and Speaking
  • 13.1 Learning through speaking in L1
  • 13.2 Learning through speaking in L2

Vocabulary and Reading
  • 14.1 How much vocabulary is needed for reading?
  • 14.2 Vocabulary knowledge helps reading, preteaching
  • 14.3 Readability
  • 14.4 Learning vocabulary through reading
  • 14.5 Extensive reading (check with 9.4)

Vocabulary and Writing
  • 15.1 Lexical diversity, assessing the vocabulary component of writing
  • 15.2 Errors
  • 15.3 Vocabulary knowledge helps writing

Vocabulary and Discourse
  • 16.1 Vocabulary and discourse

Vocabulary Strategies
  • 17.1 Vocabulary strategies

Words in Context
  • 18.1 Context clues
  • 18.2 Observational studies of guessing
  • 18.3 L1 learning from guessing
  • 18.4 L2 learning from guessing
  • 18.5 Learning to guess

Rote Learning
  • 19.1 Rote learning
  • 19.2 Learning with Sentence Contexts, Instantiation

Keyword
  • 20.1 Reviews
  • 20.2 1L learning with Keyword
  • 20.3 2L learning with keyword

Dictionaries
  • 21.1 Reviews of dictionaries
  • 21.2 Comparing and evaluating dictionaries
  • 21.3 Using dictionaries
  • 21.4 Glossing
  • 21.5 Definitions, defining vocabularies

Teaching
  • 22.1 Teaching vocabulary
  • 22.2 Techniques and procedures
  • 22.3 Computer Assisted Vocabulary Learning, concordances
  • 22.4 Building vocabulary for reading

Planning
  • 23.1 Planning the vocabulary component of a course

Testing
  • 24.1 Testing and test formats
  • 24.2 Comparing formats
  • 24.3 Testing depth of knowledge
  • 24.4 Particular tests, EVST, VLT etc